Bloomberg’s Halperin: Kristol Third-Party Candidate is National Review’s David French

Tuesday on Bloomberg TV’s “With All Due Respect,” co-host Mark Halperin revealed the third-party candidate being teased by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is the National Review’s David French.

French and Kristol declined to offer comment to Halperin and his co-host John Heilemann, but Halperin offered a brief biography of French.

“[E]verybody wants to know who is the independent candidate who Bill Kristol has been touting?” Halperin said in the opening of his the show. “According to our sources, we can report that the man being eyed by Kristol is a conservative writer and Iraqi were veteran named David French. You may not have heard of him. We hadn’t either. The big guessing game had been going on since...